#183 - OpenAI o1, Adobe vid gen, Reflection 70B, DeepMind AlphaProteo

Our 183rd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! With hosts Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris.

Note: once again, apologies from Andrey on this one coming out late. Starting with the next one we should be back to a regular(ish) release schedule.

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In this episode:

- OpenAI's O1 and O1 mini models boast advanced reasoning and longer responses.

- Adobe adds video generation to Firefly, Anthropic launches AI safety-focused Claude enterprise.

- LLAMA3 8B excels with synthetic tokens, AI-generated ideas deemed more novel.

- New AI forecasting bot competes with veteran human forecasters.

Timestamps + Links:

• (00:00:00) Intro / Banter

• (00:02:38) Response to listener comments / corrections

• Tools & Apps • (00:04:00) OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities • (00:22:06) Adobe says video generation is coming to Firefly this year • (00:25:27) Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise with more security, admin controls • (00:27:55) Tell Replit's AI Agent Your App Idea, and It'll Code and Deploy It for You •

• Applications & Business • (00:31:42) OpenAI Fundraising Set to Vault Startup’s Valuation to $150 Billion • (00:37:03) OpenAI Hits 1 Million Paid Users For Business Versions of ChatGPT • (00:39:59) TSMC Arizona achieves production yields similar to those at its fabs in Taiwan, says report • (00:45:14) Japan’s Sakana AI partners Nvidia for research, raises $100M •

• Projects & Open Source • (00:47:31) The fable of Reflection 70B • (00:53:08) DataGemma: Using real-world data to address AI hallucinations • (00:56:31) DeepSeek-V2.5 wins praise as the new, true open source AI model leader •

• Research & Advancements • (01:01:35) Google DeepMind Launches AlphaProteo , an AI Model for Generating Proteins • (01:08:27) Synthetic continued pretraining • (01:16:55) A Large-Scale Human Study with 100+ NLP Researchers • (01:23:55) Superhuman Automated Forecasting •

• Policy & Safety • (01:28:05) OpenAI o1 System Card • (01:36:58) US roll outs new export controls aimed at restricting China’s chip industry • (01:39:50) Employee Call for Governor Newsom to Sign SB 1047 • (01:42:34) Taylor Swift says AI version of herself falsely endorsing Trump 'conjured up my fears' •

• Synthetic Media & Art • (01:44:42) YouTube is developing AI detection tools for music and faces, plus creator controls for AI training •

• (01:45:08) Outro

Release date

Lydbog: 26. september 2024